by Catherine Jinks
I liked this book well enough, but in the end there wasn't really anything that grabbed me about it.
This book was recommended to me by my friend Kaethe, and let me just say, she suggests some excellent books! How to Catch a Bogle was kinda sorta Harry Potter meets Charles Dickens, but more emphasis on Dickens than Potter. The story was engaging from page one, and I tore through this thing! Yes...
Monster-hunting's a tough job but someone has to do it. And it's considerably less unpleasant than the other careers available to Victorian orphans: mudlarking, pickpocketing, sewer toshing. What I liked best was an authentic feeling of time and place. Oh,well, and also the concept which is Supernat...